MSc, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jyväskylä, Finland

University of Jyväskylä

2019 - 2016

• Thesis: “Variable light conditions affect warning signal efficacy in an aposematic polymorphic moth”
• Grade: 4/5.
• My degree was graded as “Excellent”, the highest grade awarded to degrees at JYU
• Supervised by Phd Ossi Nokelainen and Prof. Johanna Mappes

BSc, Biological Sciences

Viçosa, Brazil

Federal University of Viçosa

2016 - 2009

• Monograph: “What drives changes in composition of ant assemblages along a vertical gradient?”
• Supervised by Profs. Fernando Augusto Schmidt and José Henrique Schoreder

Visiting student

Helsinki, Finland

University of Helsinki

2014 - 2013

• Attended Master’s level courses and did an internship at the research group “Social Evolution in Ants”

Master’s thesis development

Evolution of predator-prey interactions group

University of Jyväskylä

2019 - 2017

• I did my thesis work in Professor Johanna Mappes’s group. I investigated the effects of different light conditions affected the predation pressure suffered by Actia plantaginis, an aposematic species that is also color polymorphic. I attended the group’s weekly meetings during which we discussed papers, and presented research projects.

Research apprentice

Laboratório de Ecologia de Comunidades

Federal University of Viçosa

2016 - 2011

• I was part of different ant community ecology and biodiversity research projects, and conducted the project that resulted in my bachelor’s monograph. I had experience with sampling and identifying ants, data analysis and scientific writing, among other activities related to the research group.

Research apprentice

Social Evolution in Ants

University of Helsinki

2014 - 2013

• I worked as research apprentice in the group “Social Evolution in Ants” during my exchange year at University of Helsinki. I was part of projects related to ecology, evolution, behaviour, and population biology of Formica and Myrmica ants. I had experience with sampling and sorting ant colonies, setting-up and maintaining experimental colonies in the lab and recording results from lab experiments. I also helped with mark/recapture sampling and survival assays using ants.

Beyond beta: diversity partitioning reveals different underlying patterns in ant assemblages along two small scale gradients in a Brazilian Neotropical forest

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

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2019

• Paper based on the results of my Bsc monography

Do different light conditions influence warning signal efficacy in the color polymorphic wood tiger moth males?

Talk

5^TH Young Natural History Scientists’ Meeting, Paris, France.

2018

• DE MORAES REZENDE, F. ; MAPPES, J. ; NOKELAINEN, O.

What drives changes in composition of ant assemblages along a vertical gradient?

Talk

XXII Simpósio de Mirmecologia: An International Ant Meeting, Ilhéus, Brasil

2015

• REZENDE, F. M. ; JESUS, R. S. ; RIBAS, C. R., SCHOEREDER, J. H.
• This talk won the prize for best oral presentation in its category

Os últimos serão os primeiros? Distribuição de abortos no fruto de Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Witt

Talk

EcoEncontros, USP

2015

• I presented the talk “Os últimos serão os primeiros? Distribuição de abortos no fruto de Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Witt” as part of the activities of EcoEncontros—a weekly meeting organized by graduate students from Universidade de São Paulo’s (USP) Graduate Program in Ecology. This talk was about the project developed by my group during the “2^a EcoEscola: Escola de Ecologia da USP”. My group investigated a possible selective abortion pattern in L. leucocephala’s pods and its relationship to post copulatory cryptic female choice. Our hypothesis was that we would find significantly more abortions on the basal end of the pods. We did not find any clear abortion pattern in the pods.

Defense behavior of the Blood-red ant Formica sanguinea Latreille, 1789

Poster

XXII Simpósio de Mirmecologia: An International Ant Meeting, Ilhéus, Brasil

2015

• DE MORAES REZENDE, F.

News on the enigmatic ant genus Anillidris (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae: Leptomyrmecini)

Article

Myrmecological News, volume 19, pages 25-30

2014

• SCHMIDT, F. A. ; FEITOSA, R. M. ; DE MORAES REZENDE, F. ; SILVA DE JESUS, R.
• Available from here

Insights on the behaviour of the neotropical termitophilous ant Centromyrmex pr. brachycola

Poster

23^rd Spring Symposium, Helsinki, Finland

2014

• CHAUL, J. C. M; REZENDE, F. M.

Resource availability and aggressive behavior among ants: a proxy for inter-specific competition role on ant community structure.

Poster

XXI Simpósio de Mirmecologia, Fortaleza, Brazil

2013

• SCHMIDT, F. A. ; JESUS, R. S. ; REZENDE, F. M. ; SOLAR, R. R. C. ; RIBAS, C. R. ; SCHOEREDER, J. H.

Azteca-Cecropia interaction: Ants’ presence could influence the production of Müllerian bodies in Cecropia glaziovii sneth?

Poster

50^th Anniversary Meeting: Association for tropical biology and conservation, San José, Costa Rica

2013

• OLIVEIRA, K. N. ; JESUS, R. S. ; SOUZA, A. A. B. ; REZENDE, F. M. ; ESPÍRITO-SANTO, M. M. ; CAMPOS, R. I.

Processo de apodrecimento de troncos caídos no solo e a diversidade de formigas

Poster

XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Entomologia, Curitiba, Brasil

2012

• CHAUL, J. C. M. ; REZENDE, F. M.
• We investigated how the richness of the ant communities present in fallen logs was influenced by how rot these logs were. Our hypothesis was that we would find more ant species when the logs were at a moderate state of decay. We did not find a significant relationship between the studied variables

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• I can analyze data using LMs, GLMs, GLMMs and conduct survival analyses. I can produce bar plots, line graphs, scatter plots, and histograms using R’s base graphics device and ggplot2. Finally, I know enough programming in R to clean and organize/sort data. I also know enough R to look for help online and implement it on my own provided that I have some time to work on it.

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• I can produce my own simple documents, including presentations and I know enough to implement different templates when necessary

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• I can use libraries such as Pandas,Matplotlib and Seaborn to do basic data manipulation and plotting

Bash

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• I can write scripts to manipulate data and automate tasks

Ecology tutor

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Federal University of Viçosa

2013 - 2012

• Worked as a tutor in the course “BIO 131 — Ecologia Básica” (Basic Ecology) for three semesters. My duties consisted of assisting the students during the practical lessons, evaluating the reports made by the students and conducting a weekly meeting to help the students with any content-related doubts. I also helped the professors during the I, II & III Mostra de trabalhos de ecologia básica. These were mini symposia in which the students presented projects conducted during the course using the scientific method. My duties were to supervise and evaluate some of these projects.
• I received a scholarship as a compensation for my work in this position
• Undergraduate level class

Evolution tutor

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Federal University of Viçosa

2012

• Worked as tutor in the course “BIO 340 — Evolução Orgânica” (Organic Evolution) for one semester. My duties were to assist the students within and without class hours, to evaluate the students’ reports and extra tasks, to help the students prepare their seminars and to elaborate questions during the presentation of said seminars.
• This was a voluntary position (i.e., I was not paid)
• Undergraduate level class

III Mostra de Trabalhos de Ecologia Básica

Viçosa, Brazil

Federal University of Viçosa

2013

II Mostra de Trabalhos de Ecologia Básica

Viçosa, Brazil

Federal University of Viçosa

2013

I Mostra de Trabalhos de Ecologia Básica

Viçosa, Brazil

Federal University of Viçosa

2012

I Simpósio de Ecologia e Evolução

Viçosa, Brazil

Federal University of Viçosa

2012

5^TH Young Natural History Scientists’ Meeting

Paris, France

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2018

XXII Simpósio de Mirmecologia: An International Ant Meeting

Ilhéus, Brazil

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2015

I Simpósio de Ecologia e Evolução, Viçosa, Brazil

Viçosa, Brazil

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2012

XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Entomologia,

Curitiba, Brazil

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2012

III Simpósio de Entomologia

Viçosa, Brazil

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2011

XX Simpósio de Mirmecologia — I Encuentro de Mirmecologia de Las Americas

Petrópolis, Brazil

N/A

2011

Computational and data literacy

London, UK

Natural History Museum

2018

• Duration: June 4 – June 8
• Course on reproducible data analysis and management, including data wrangling, Git and Github, R Markdown, and the basics of data analysis and visualisation using R.

International summer school on lake ecology and management,

Cēsis, Latvia

Institute for Environmental Solutions

2017

• Duration: August 24 – September 2
• This summer school focused on lake ecology and management in the 21^st century, new technologies for lake research and sustainable management developed in cooperation with stakeholders

2^a EcoEscola: Escola de Ecologia da USP

São Paulo, Brazil

University of São Paulo

2015

• Duration: July 27 – August 14 (92 hours altogether)
• A three-week long course on ecology organized by the students of USP’s Graduate Program in Ecology. It consisted of two modules. The first module happened from July 27 to July 31 and it consisted of three mini-symposia (one about ecology applied to conservation, one about ecology & evolution and one about ecological interactions). The second module happened from August 3 to August 14. It consisted of lectures about the scientific method, data analysis and presentation, among other topics. We also developed, executed and presented a project on ecology. For more information on this course please write ecoescola@ib.usp.br

III Formigas do Brasil

Uberlândia, Brazil

Federal University of Uberlândia

2014

• Duration: September 7 – September 14 (56 hours altogether)
• A course on Brazilian mirmecology. It included lectures about ecology, taxonomy, phylogeny, ant identification and sampling. Additionally, we had a field trip to the Cerrado (a Brazilian biome similar to the African Savannas) to apply some of the sampling techniques that we learned during the course.

Taxonomy, Identification and Ecology of European Ants

Copenhagen, Denmark

University of Copenhagen

2014

• Duration: August 24 – August 29 (4 ECTS)
• Similar to “III Formigas do Brasil” but focusing on European ants. Besides the previously described topics, this course dealt with chemical ecology and molecular methods. We also went on a field trip to learn/apply sampling techniques.

XI Curso de Verão em Entomologia

Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

University of São Paulo — Ribeirão Preto campus

2013

• January 28 – February 8 (90 hours altogether)
• An entomology summer school. We learned the basics about ecology, evolution, phylogeny, biogeography and behavior of several different Insecta groups. We also learned several sampling techniques used to samples insects and applied them on a short field trip.